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...failed to carry out a number of promises contained in the historic agreements signed last summer not only in Gdansk, but also in Szczecin and Jastrzebie. Among them were pledges to increase Solidarity's access to the press, free political prisoners and reduce censorship. As Union Leader Lech Walesa put it to a throng of followers last week: "Let's not fight for local goals. Let's fight for wider goals. We will not go back one step...
...could TIME choose Ronald Reagan as Man of the Year over Poland's Lech Walesa? Walesa is the only person thus far to challenge successfully totalitarian Communism at its weakest point, human rights and freedom. He is risking his life and the lives of his wife and six small children...
...bring about any improvement in Poland's troubled economy, the government must first win the trust of a cynical and disgruntled public. This is obviously no easy task, but there seemed to be some grounds for compromise. Before his departure for Rome last week. Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa told reporters: "We do not want a strike and will be looking for better solutions." Another spokesman for the unions described the boycott of Saturday work this way: "Not as a confrontation, but as a first stage leading to an agreement...
Under a wintry Italian sky, a gray-suited and solemn Lech Walesa, his wife Miroslawa and a 13-member delegation from Solidarity strode across the Vatican's stone-paved Court of San Damaso to the Apostolic Palace. For the occasion, the Swiss Guards had donned their red-plumed metal helmets, an honor usually reserved for visiting heads of state. The helmets attested to the special significance that the Vatican attached to last week's meeting between the leader of Solidarity and his Pope and countryman, John Paul II, formerly Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Cracow...
...effort to avert a collision with the government and stave off a possible Soviet military invasion, Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland's independent Solidarity unions, had called for a moratorium on strikes until mid-January. But last week, after scarcely more than a month of relative peace, the labor front heated up again. Renewed protests and strike threats showed that the union leadership is still unable to impose a uniform discipline on the vast and restive labor movement...